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however, at this point," he proceeds, " that 

 natural science, so long as it remains such, works 

 only with real, existing objects. A hypothesis may 

 be discussed, but its significance can only be 

 established by producing actual proofs in its 

 favour, either by experiments or direct observa- 

 tions. This Darwinism has not succeeded in doing. 

 In vain have its adherents sought for connecting 

 links which should connect man with the monkey. 

 Not a single one has been found. The so-called 

 pro-ant bropos, which is supposed to represent this 

 connecting link, has not as yet appeared. No real 

 scientist claims to have seen him. Hence the pro- 

 anthropos is not at present an object of discussion 

 for an anthropologist. Some may be able to see 

 him in their dreams, but when awake they will 

 not be able to say they have met him. Even the 

 hope of a future discovery of this pro-antbropos is 

 highly improbable ; for we are not living in a dream, 

 or in an ideal world, but in a real one." Three 

 years later the same great authority maintained 

 the same position, saying of development : " And 

 so, in the case of man, we are repulsed all along 

 the line. All the researches undertaken with the 

 object of finding continuity in progressive de- 

 velopment have been without result ; the pro- 

 anthropos does not exist ; the man ape does not 

 exist ; the missing link remains a phantom." 

 Again I would point out that at the time this was 

 written Virchow had before him all the evidence 

 which we have to-day,* except that of the Trinil 



* *.*., 1905, the date of this article. 



